Wherein a surgeon tells some stories, shares some thoughts, and occasionally shoots off his mouth. Like a surgeon.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Selling Out

So I got invited to blog for money. Truth be told, I'd not heard of MedPage Today before the offer came along. Even though it amounts more to tribute than treasure, I said yes. My tat for their tit is to have placed a new scrolling news-widget in my sidebar, over there to the right. And I've agreed that although it's OK to post stuff from here over there, I'll be writing some "exclusive" posts as well. I assume it's OK to let readers here know when I've dropped one there. So, other than a post of self-introduction, here's my first offering.

Funny how it works. This comes at a time when I've been feeling like I've squeezed my blogging brain pretty dry. Given a contractual commitment, I'm worried about giving this blog -- my one true love -- short shrift. We'll see. It could be the end of me in both places. Poetic justice.

13 comments:

Sid, this is great news! You're a wealth of information, as my "Sid's Tomes" folder will attest. You've seen so many changes in medicine and bring a measured, well-rounded perspective to the proliferation of jaded opinions on all sorts of topics. Plus you make me laugh. Good on ya!

Speaking of being published in other places I came across this in the online letters section of this weeks Savage Love:http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/15736The third letter from the bottom.I thought you'd like to know that your conquest of the internet is continuing apace.

ATG: Busted! Yeah, I've been known to read Dan Savage, in The Onion. And I've sent the occasional email to him, when I though he needed a little medical input. Until your comment, I didn't know that one had been published. But let's keep it our secret, OK?

Hopefully you don't have something akin to a restrictive convenant -- maybe you'll find they're rolling in dough and giving you peanuts. Just mentioned this in jest on intueri.org, but maybe you can become a free agent, try to pull in the megabucks.

Greg: I suppose I could amortize based on the number of comments, which, last I checked, was nil. The gratuity is much more of an honorarium than a living wage, but it's the thought, I suppose. I'm still feeling my way: the implicit pressure may get to me.

About Me

I'm a mostly retired general surgeon. With my surgical blog, my intention is to inform, entertain, and possibly educate the reader about surgery, and about the life and loves of a surgeon: this one, anyway. Don't know what I'm thinking, doing a political blog, too.
In an amazing coincidence, I've also written a book, "Cutting Remarks; Insights and Recollections of a Surgeon." It's about my surgical training in San Francisco in the 1970s, aimed at the lay reader with the goal of entertaining with good stories, informing with understandable details of surgical anatomy, procedures, and diseases. Knowing you, I bet you'd enjoy it. In fact, if you like Surgeonsblog, you'll absolutely love the book!

Boring, Unoriginal, but Important Disclaimer:

What I say here is as true as I can make it, based on my experience as a surgeon. Still, in no way is it intended as specific medical advice for any condition. For that, you need to consult your own doctors, who actually know you. I hope you'll find things of interest and amusement here; maybe useful information. But please, please, PLEASE understand: this blog ought not be used in any way to provide the reader with ideas about diagnosis or treatment of any symptoms or disease. Also, as you'd expect, when I describe patients, I've changed many personal details: age, sex, occupation -- enough to make them into no one you might actually know. Thanks, and enjoy the blog.